Girdling, or the removal of a strip of bark around a tree’s outer circumference, is often used to study carbon relations. De Schepper and Steppe adapt an existing tree model describing water and carbon transport in...
Tag - Photosynthesis
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Free—open access paper: Reductions in biomass accumulation, photosynthesis in situ and the net carbon balance are the costs of protecting Vitis vinifera ‘Semillon’ grapevines from heat stress with shade covering
Shade cloth can be used to protect grapevines from high temperatures. However, the resulting low light intensity is shown to reduce photosynthesis, leading to lower carbon allocation to vegetative growth and sugar...
Lulu Stader
Drought and photosynthetic capacity of Calotropis
Calotropis procera and C. gigantea both grow successfully in dry areas. Tezara et al. examine their ecophysiological traits and find that photosynthesis is co-limited by stomatal and non-stomatal factors under drought...
Canopy photosynthesis model with acclimation of protein distribution
Canopy photosynthesis model with acclimation of protein distribution Protein distribution through canopies influences net photosynthesis due to its effect on gross photosynthesis and respiration. By optimizing daily...
Leaf functional traits of invasive and native woody vines
Success of invasive plant species is thought to be linked with their higher leaf carbon fixation strategy. Osunkoya et al. (pp. 371–380) show that there is limited difference in trait plasticity between exotic invasive...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Assembly and repair of photosystem II (Invited Review)
Considerable attention has been focused on how photosystem II (PSII) is assembled in vivo and how it is repaired following irreversible damage by visible light (so-called photoinhibition). Nixon et al. (pp. 1–16)...
